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Frank Zappa, Motherly Love

Back in '66 we got the first album from Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. This is track 5 and it is called Motherly Love. The guitar is pretty cool. Overdriven

When Zappa went to Sicily

Netflix knows I like a music documentary. This one was suggested recently and I watched it this week. I do like Frank Zappa's music, but there is plenty I do not

Z is for Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

I've been collecting records for as long as I can remember, and sometimes it's easy to skip over things, and forget what you've got. I'm going to start listening

Chicago Winter 1979

Memories I looked out my window this afternoon and saw the first snowfall of the year. The snow makes everything quiet and still like a blanket covering the frozen

Zappa - finally got to see it

Five years ago I contributed to a Kickstarter to preserve Frank Zappa's archive of recordings. This was run by Alex Winter who is best known for being in Bill and

Words to live 0139

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life #FrankZappa

A Shirt on Sunday: Dweezil Zappa - 4/12/2019 - Royal Festival Hall

My December began with two Frank Zappa tribute concerts. First, the Zappadan Zappajam, wherein various West London Zappa fans perform in a community hall in Acton,

Happy 79th Birthday Frank Zappa

T-shirts from my collection Today is the end of 'Zappadan' - stretching from 4th December, the day Frank Zappa died in 1993, to today, his birthday. FZ was famous

A Shirt on Sunday - Who the f**k is Frank Zappa

The #ShirtOnSunday theme was kicked off by @hockney who has a vast selection to choose from and I expect he has this shirt too. A couple of years ago I heard that

My Actifit Report Card: July 9 2019 - Frank Zappa

14K on a nice summer day! 😎 It wasn't too hot today and it wasn't too sunny. But it was nice and a good day to be outside. I cut the lawn and did a few other chores

A Shirt on Sunday - The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa – 14/5/2019 – London Palladium

Towards the back of ‘The Real Frank Zappa Book’ (dictated by the man himself in the late 80’s) is a chapter named “Failure”. It contains a section on a proposed

Little Frank Zappa

....frank zappa too was son of a military officer

A shirt on Sunday: Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 7-9/8/2008

Another August weekend, relaxing on the hill with a beer in hand, listening to great music and wondering when the rain will start. Thursday gave us Whapweasel, of

Shifty Chicken Shed and their shenanigans

Introducing Shifty Chicken Shed, the originators of 'Charity Shop Pop'. Utterly unglamorous and yet excitingly eclectic, their sound is a

1975: A rhapsodic year for bohemians, and for x-daysofmusic

Another year of this challenge set up by @backinblackdevil. But I'm not putting that song in as you already know it. Looking at my selection, 1975 was about songs

1967: Born under a good sign. For x-daysofmusic

@Steevc nominated me a few days ago... According to Wikipaedia, in the first week of August 1967, Luna 5 was photographing the dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd's

When news and Zappa collide

I'm in a Frank Zappa mood having just covered one of his songs. Then I see this story of a 99 million year old baby snake being found in amber in Myanmar. I bet

Steemit Open Mic Week 94: Zappa!

This is my submission for Steemit Open Mic that is run by @luzcypher. Please support other entries. You can find them in the comments of that post. I wonder if anyone

A little Gibson SG Picture-Series

Hi Steemians, This is a little picture-series on one of the rarest SG-Finishes ever produced. Gibson should have produced more natural-finished Sg's than they did.

FRANK ZAPPA - Echidna's Arf (Of You) [piano cover by Hisokana Pianisuto]

originally from the album 'Roxy & Elsewhere' (1974) arranged & performed by Hisokana Pianisuto ► Listen on DSound ► Listen from source (IPFS)